To hide
staves for editing (Scroll View)
By hiding staves using Staff Sets you can view a selected number of staves on your screen for convenient editing. For example, in a full concert band score, if you would like to view your flute part and the percussion staves on-screen at once, you could assign these staves to a Staff Set to view them while hiding all the other staves. ote also that when you change the
position of a staff in a staff set, it changes positions for all staff
sets.
- Click the Staff Tool . Shift+click the staves
you don’t want to hide. You can also select staves by drag-enclosing
their handles or by choosing Select All from the Edit menu. In any case,
the selected staves’ handles become highlighted.
- While pressing option,
choose Program Staff Set from the View menu; from the submenu, choose
one of the Staff Sets (1 through 8). You’re programming a Staff
Set that, when selected, will hide the non-selected staves.
- To view the new configuration of staves, choose
the Staff Set you programmed from the submenu of the Select Staff Set
command (in the View menu).
A quicker way is to note the keyboard
equivalent for the desired Staff Template (Control+1 through Control+8).
By pressing Control+0 (zero), you restore all staves to the display; by
pressing the command for your Staff Set, you “rehide” the desired staves.
You can repeat this process with other configurations of staves (the other
seven Staff Sets), which allows you a total of nine instantly available
staff configurations. Finale prints all staves, however, no matter which
ones are visible in Scroll View; to omit staves in printing, see To hide staves for printing.